Analysis of Sunday Morning In January



Only one woman goes to church -
her kids declare they don’t believe;

her man is praying for rock ‘n’ roll
- that she won’t get up and leave

the cosy, crumpled bed
with its flowery, high-tog quilt

in the tranquil, perfumed room
of a home so carefully built.

A greying chap now tidies
the snoozing winter gardens

in the few mild days
before the ice re-hardens

small patches of green,
for weeks covered in snow,

and now the weatherman says
that they don’t really know

if there’s more of it to come
in a vindictive white wall,

we will not hear it overnight
as the mute flakes fall.

Bad weather is a fine excuse
to stay home and praise the Lord

that even a beefy jeep
can’t drive through the swollen ford;

so we’re making love in shadows,
trying desperately to connect

struggling to light the fire again,
after years of stern neglect


Scheme XA XA XB XB CC CC XD CD XE XE CF XF CG XG
Poetic Form
Metre 10110111 01011101 011101111 1111101 010101 11100111 0010011 10111001 010111 0101010 00111 0101110 11011 111001 010101 111101 1111111 0001011 11111101 10111 11010101 1110101 1100101 1110101 1010101 101000101 1001101001 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 817
Words 154
Sentences 3
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on January 25, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paul Judges

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